Phantis:Selected anniversaries/October 29
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- 1918: The General Labor Union of Greece (GSEE) was established
- 1956: Maria Callas debuted at the Metropolitan Opera of New York singing Bellini's "Norma".
- 1959: An Olympic Airways Douglas Aircraft Company DC-3 crashed near Athens. All 18 passengers and crew members perished.
- 1988:The scandal with George Koskotas surfaced when then Minister of Education, Giorgos Papandreou, accused Olympiakos' president of illegal transactions with Merril Lynch
- Births: Thrasivoulos Zaimis (1822), politician, Prime Minister; Giorgos Donis (1969), football player and coach
- Deaths: Mimis Fotopoulos (1986), actor, Maria Kalouta (2006), actress.
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